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...response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds and the Shi'ite majority, with the support of the U.S., could deal with the Fallujah insurgents. Sometimes the antidote is a bitter pill to swallow. David Hicks Duluth, Georgia, U.S. God and Science While I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate [Nov. 14], I long to see an article that examines the causality for the controversy and suggests how it might be resolved. Among my friends who are adherents of the doctrine of God-inspired intelligent design, the issue...
HOPPING From the makers of the original pogo stick comes ? a super pogo stick! Invented by M.I.T.-trained physicist Bruce Middleton and developed with champion skateboarder Andy Macdonald, the Flybar mobile exercise and stunt bar enables riders to clear heights greater than 6 ft. by bouncing on a rubber-like spring system that feels similar to a trampoline...
While I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate [Nov. 14], I long to see an article that examines the causality of the controversy and suggests how it might be resolved. Among my friends who are adherents of the doctrine of God-inspired intelligent design, the issue isn't one of conflicting scientific theories but of a desire to make science work for them in the effort to live a purposeful and successful life. We need to focus on finding a solution rather than repeating the same arguments for 100 years...
...Center’s Thompson Room was abuzz with excitement on Wednesday, as Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick approached the podium to introduce the inaugural lecture in a series on migration and medieval culture.For the 50 audience members, the lecture, which focused on the collaboration of a physicist and an archaeologist, was more than a speech. It signaled a renewed commitment to medieval studies at Harvard.Two years ago, McCormick was awarded $1.5 million as part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation in New York. Each year, the Mellon Foundation gives five humanities scholars the Distinguished Achievement Award...
...think most of us still have that love within us somewhere—otherwise, we probably couldn’t have made it here.5. Teach to learn and re-learn: In order to design a coherent and engaging curriculum, a teacher must literally take up the role of historian, physicist, etc. Teachers have to reconstruct and expand their own understanding of what they already know in order to convey it to their students. As Orin Gutlerner, director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), puts it, “A lot of people perceive K-12 teaching as an intellectually...